My latest #CrossBorderRail project starts on Wednesday 30th August – you can find out all about the project in the background page here. In the subsequent two months there are going to be at least 27 “travel days”.
Each travel day will have:
- A live blog on this website (you can get a RSS feed of the live blogs here)
- Live updates throughout the day on Mastodon (follow me there: @jon@gruene.social)
- An intro video every morning and summary video every evening – on the live blog and on Peertube
- Top photos from the day uploaded to Flickr (there will be an album for every day)
- Some more limited updates on Bluesky and LinkedIn
Apart from this post, there will be no email updates each day, although there might be a few ad hoc email notifications if anything especially significant happens.
The definitive timetable for the project is always the Excel table that is available via Nextcloud here. The whole project is also mapped on umap here.
The dates and routes for the first 20 travel days are known already. Links to the live blogs and Flickr albums will only work from the day itself and afterwards. These known travel days are:
Day 01, 30 Aug, Nuits-sous-Ravières – Condé-sur-l’Escaut – Peruwelz – Bruxelles (live blog, Flickr album)
Day 02, 1 Sep, Bruxelles – Paris – Morlaix – Roscoff, onto ferry (live blog, Flickr album)
Day 03, 2 Sep, Carrigaloe – Cork – Dublin (live blog, Flickr album)
Day 04, 3 Sep, Dublin – Strabane – Derry – Belfast (live blog, Flickr album)
Day 05, 4 Sep, Belfast – Newry – Dublin (live blog, Flickr album)
Day 06, 5 Sep, Dublin – Gorey – Wexford – Rosslare (live blog, Flickr album)
Day 07, 6 Sep, Wexford – Rosslare – Fishguard – Cardiff – London (live blog, Flickr album)
Day 08, 8 Sep, London – Paris – Nuits-sous-Ravières (live blog, Flickr album)
Day 09, 14 Sep, Nuits-sous-Ravières – Dijon – Nancy – Saarbrücken – Frankfurt(Main) – Berlin (live blog, Flickr album)
Day 10, 15 Sep, Berlin – Frankfurt(Main) – Albshausen – Grävenwiesbach (live blog, Flickr album)
Day 11, 16 Sep, Grävenwiesbach – Bad Homburg – Frankfurt(Main) – Wustermark – Berlin (live blog, Flickr album)
Day 12, 21 Sep, Berlin – Duisburg – Bocholt – Aalten – Winterswijk (live blog, Flickr album)
Day 13, 22 Sep, Winterswijk – Borken – Essen – Gera – Leipzig – Berlin (live blog, Flickr album)
Day 14, 27 Sep, Berlin – München – Salzburg – Berchtesgaden – Rosenheim, then night train (live blog, Flickr album)
Day 15, 28 Sep, s’Hertogenbosch – Tilburg – Turnhout – Brugge (live blog, Flickr album)
Day 16, 29 Sep, Brugge – Hasselt – Maastricht – Roermond – Mönchengladbach – Köln – Berlin (live blog, Flickr album)
Day 17, 30 Sep, Berlin-Lichtenberg – Wrocław – Sedzislaw – Trutnov – Teplice nad Metuji (live blog, Flickr album)
Day 18, 1 Oct, Teplice nad Metuji – Mezimesti – Broumov – Lichkov – Usti nad Orlici – Hranice na Morave (live blog, Flickr album)
Day 19, 2 Oct, Hranice na Morave – Horni Lidec – Trenčín – Bratislava – Wolfsthal – Wien (live blog, Flickr album)
Day 20, 6 Oct, Bratislava – Hegyeshalom – München (live blog, Flickr album)
Some of the events that happen en route will also have live streams from the venues – this will be done the old way via Youtube streams on my channel there.
Each of the (so far planned!) 99 trains I intend to take will be assessed in a format like this:
The assessments – in order – are whether bicycles are conveyed, whether the train is accessible for persons of reduced mobility, whether the train has on board wifi, if there is a dining car or other way to get food, how much space there is for luggage on board, and how clean the train is.
And as well as following online, if I am passing where you live, do say hello! Or come to an event – all listed here!
